more likely, than by your own private Will :in j
Opinion, to attain to Persection or sometbing
very near it. And bclulcs, the Praii'e os vCjV{{
Judges is the highc.ll Sarisfe&ion ; and as sur
others they praiie you susticicntly, and indeed
too much in not doing something better tlwni-
selvcs. So that you will be surc ol the pleasure
of having the Approbation of all that underfeed
thel'e matters. And you may find your ad-
vantage in hearkening to every body ; for sonie-
times it happens, that Persons of no Skill make
Oblervations by no means to be despised. When
theresore you have well weigh'd, review'd, and
examined all the Parts of your Model, and all
the Proportions of the whole Building, so that
there is not the leali particular any whereabout
it, which you have not considerai and reflected
upon, and that you are fully resolved to build
in that manner in every rtfpeft, and can mile
the Money conveniently for bearing the Expcncc;
then prepare the other things nccesiary sor the
execution of your Work, that when you have
begun, nothing may be wanting so as to pre-
vent your finilhing your Structure expeditioully.
For as you will have occalion sor a great num-
ber of tilings for carrying on the busness, and
as if but one is unprovided, it may Hop or spoil
the whole Work, it is your care to have every
thing at hand that may be of lise to you, is
provided, or a detriment, if wanting. The
ICirgs of Juiea, David and Solomon, when they
had undertaken to build the Temple os Jeru-
snlcm, having amass'd great quantities of Gold,
Silver, Brass, Timber, Stone and the likeMate'
rials, that they might want nothing that cou'd
be serviceable in the easy and speedy execution
of the Work (as Eujebius P.impbilns tells us) lent
to the neighbouring Kings for leverai thoufknds
of Workmen and Architects. Which I highly
commend : because it certainly adds Dignity to
the Work, and encreases the Glory os the Au-
thor ; and Structures that have been handl'omely
contrived and speedily finilh'd besides, have been
very much celebrated by ancient Writers.
Qiinttts Curtius relates that Alexander the Great,
in building a City, and that no very liliali (ine,
near the Ttrnais, spent but seven Days : and
Josepbus the Hiltorian tells us, that ttohtcbttdntxx»'
built the Temple pf Beius in sisteen, and in the
same space os time girt the City of Babylon with
three Circuits os Walls. That Tims made a
Wall little less than sive Miles long, and Semini'
mis near BMm built the eighth Part os a Mile